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Part of that sequence? yes. are these two works behind you, part of that sequence?— part of that sequence? yes, i do not know _ part of that sequence? yes, i do not know if— part of that sequence? yes, i do not know if they _ part of that sequence? yes, i do not know if they are - do not know if they are finished yet but they are part of the icecap melting. we are destroying everything, arent we? , ., we? do you feel it is that bad? i feel it in _ we? do you feel it is that bad? i feel it in...

Almost incomprehensible. but you mean when you, literally, you start to draw with your left hand, youre not quite sure where its going and whats happening? exactly so. lets talk about your work and i want to begin with your most recent work, because you have continued painting right through lockdown. you even had a show in lockdown and youre still at it every day. has whats happened to the world in the last year and a half, has that affected the subject matter? well, at the beginning of lockdown...

And billions of dollars. and the reality is with climate change were just going to see more and more idas, arent we? >> i mean, climate change i can certainly say the effect of these hurricanes is going to be worsened because for example sea level rise is going to increase because of climate change and that has severe consequences on the impacts of these hurricanes. not only that, we have barrier islands, we have marshes, we have buffer zones that are getting destroyed because of climbed change ...

Were up in the air. you know, i was going to show in new york and one thing and another. i mean, like a lot of people, i felt very angry at everything suddenly stopping. and then, of course, it was marvellous. there were no aeroplanes, there wasnt much traffic and you could hear the birds and it was very good not having to see people one didnt want to see, you know? so, less anger now? mm... well, i think anger is quite a good thing. anger is energy, anger about things that happen in the world. ...

So its quite obvious to make a drawing. but its not necessarily a time or a moment where... ..where you feel like working, cos it is sort of work as well as an act of love. but its the last time you see the person and this whole thing about death, i mean, if you love someone, they... for anyone, they go on being alive inside you, dont they? tell me about the shift from being a pure painter to then embracing sculpture as well. why did you move in that direction? well, i was painting a painting wh...

Well, i was painting a painting which... it was during the laugh paintings, which i painted in the �*90s when everything was doom and gloom and thatcher, and i started to try and paint the laugh cos it was the only thing to do. and the paintings were becoming more and more like an object in space, do you know? the image of an object in space. and so i, being rather slow coming from suffolk, i finally realised i should be making the things rather than painting them. and quite often i could be w...

Many people around the world will associate you with soho, central london, a bohemian art scene in the city. but in recent years, youve been doing your work in the middle of the suffolk countryside. has it changed the way you work and what you do? not at all. not at all? not at all. even though the atmosphere around you is so very different? not at all. i still get up at five in the summer and six in the winter and come into the studio and make a drawing and get going. if i stayed in bed, id jus...

Many people around the world will associate you with soho, central london, a bohemian art scene in the city. but in recent years, youve been doing your work in the middle of the suffolk countryside. has it changed the way you work and what you do? not at all. not at all? not at all. even though the atmosphere around you is so very different? not at all. i still get up at five in the summer and six in the winter and come into the studio and make a drawing and get going. if i stayed in bed, id jus...

Yes, yes. i dont know if theyre finished yet, but theyre part of the ice cap melting. yeah, yeah. we are destroying everything, arent we? do you really... ? do you feel it that bad? yes, i feel it. i feel it in my bones. and so when you called part of the series the edge, you feel that we are how close to that edge? well, maybe not in my lifetime, but, i mean, are your grandchildren�*s grandchildren ever going to see a tiger? i mean, and the rest of it. er, we are doing our best to make a hash...

In the coffin, like my mother or my father, its the last time youre going to see them before they go down there. so its quite obvious to make a drawing. but its not necessarily a time or a moment where... ..where you feel like working, cos it is sort of work as well as an act of love. but its the last time you see the person and this whole thing about death, i mean, if you love someone, they... for anyone, they go on being alive inside you, dont they? tell me about the shift from being a pure pa...